DISASTERS LIKE THAT AT AUSTIN 2,235 Perished In the Johns town Flood In 1889, PROPERTY LOSS $10,000,000 Heavy Loss of Life at Sheffield, Eng land, In 1864 A Dam Gave Way at Williamsburg, Mass., In 1874 and One In Arizona In 1890. Tfio disaster at Austin recalls the flood that overwhelmed Johnstown, Pa., on May 31, 1880. The great res ervoir of Lake Conemaugh, two miles and a half long by a mile and a half wide and Its greatest depth about ten feet, swept down on the beautiful Conemaugh valley, destroying John stown and all its surrounding suburbs. Fire completed the destruction. The number of lives lost was 2,235, and the property destroyed was valued at $10, 000,000. For ten years beforo the dam finally broke It had been considered a menace to the valley In times of freshet, though equal to all ordinary emergen cies, The property belonged to a hunt ing club, and complaints had often been made to It. Panic had fre quently fallen upon the inhabitants of the valley. It was the commonness of the fear of a break In the dam that made the destruction worse when It did come, for the cry of danger had been often raised before nnd found to be unnecessary. Before noon on May 31 It becamo evident to engineers that the dam was in great danger of giving way. Long and protracted rains had caused tho level of tho lake to rise so rapidly that when tho danger was foreseen and great gangs of men were put to work opening a sluiceway they could not work fast enough to release tho At noon messengers were sent to Johnstown warning the people, but they were not believed. The water In the streets of Johnstown was already kneo deep, and a log boom had coino uuwii uuiu uuuuiui ereeit in me morn ing. Only n few hundred had taken tho warning seriously and carried their families to tho hills. When it became certain the dam was going nn engineer named Praks mounted a fast horse and rode through the valley to Johnstown, eighteen miles below, cry ing out that the dam was bound to go. Then Came the Flood. At 3 o'clock the whole center of the dam gave way in a break 300 feet wide. Trees, rocks and earth bounded into the nlr. A great flood of water, half a mile wldo and forty feet high, swept down tho vnlley with tho swift ness of a cannon ball. It caught "up Mineral Point. It tore down upon East Conemaugh, where tho Pennsyl vania railroad had Its yards. Every house was destroyed. Masses of Iron bars were caught up and became so many battering rams, engines weigh ing twenty tons were tossed like chips of wood. The borough of Franklin was eaten up. Woodvule, directly opposite Johns town, with a population of 3,000, waa annihilated. The distance from the lake to Johnstown was traversed In seven minutes. Two wings of tho flood struck Johns town proper, and Its destruction was complete. At that time the city had a population of 28,000. It was tho Beat of the Cambria Iron works, employing 6,000 men. The mas3 of debris borno by tho flood was chocked by the bridge of the Pennsylvania railroad, and an effective dam waa made. The water recoiled upon tho city, meeting there the wing that had been diverted and had flowed around the city. The result was a gigantic whirlpool which ground to pieces any building that escaped liJC U10l UilOUU .LUC uuiac Ul LUU uo structlon was maddening to the sur vivors. Men who passed through the experience said afterward that tho horror of the night could not be put into words. Hundreds of persona float- The mass of wreckage at tho rail- tho work of rescue of living persons from this mass of wreckage was going on the cry of Are rang out. The wa ter soaked wood offered little resist ance to the terrible conflagration that started In many places at once. Hun dreds of vlctlme wero burned alive, while rescuers workod wildly to save whom they could. The fire burned for twelve hours. Other Dams That Broke. Failures of dams In the last half century have not been uncommon. The Bradford earth dam at Sheffield, Eng land, broke In March, 1804. Tho flood reached Sheffield at midnight, caus ing the loss of twenty-tbree lives and great destruction of property. Mill river dam at Williamsburg, Mass., gave way in 1874 while the wa ter was four feet from the top. In twenty minutes the reservoir was emp tied of 100,000,000 cubic feet of water, Which drowned 143 persons and de stroyed property valued at $1,000,000. The Walnut Grove dam In Arizona failed on Feb. 22, 1800. It was one of the highest rock filled dams ever built being 110 foot high and 10 feet thick at tho top and 140 feet at the bottom. Many don tin rosultod. BATTLESHIPS TO BE BETTER PROTECTED. Gunnery Tests Show the Need of Thicker Armor. One of the important changes which will be inado In new battleships as a result of the firings of the Delaware at the San Marcos will be a different ar rangement of the protective armor. To naval ordnance experts the de struction wrought by tho projectiles hitting the San Marcos demonstrated that what armor Is used should be sufficiently thick to form actual protec tion to a ship's vital parts and that It Is of no advantage to spread compara lively thin armor over other portions. In n goneral way armor thick enough to be effective and no waBte of weight oy nuuing thin armor is the plan. It also was found that the armor belt should be extended farther below the water line than in the present bat tleshlps. It is considered likely, there fore, that the comparatively thin armor wmcn lias been placed over some ior Hons of battleships will bo dispensed with In future nnd that tho protection will bo concentrated over tho vital lortions and made sufficiently thick to ive nctunl protection. This, it is explained, will result In a considerable saving in weight, for tiio increased thickness over the vital portions will be made up for by saving uio weignt used heretofore for sec ondnry protection. I.leutenunt Commander Leigh C. Pal- mer, director of target practice and engineering competitions, has advocat ed a plan of assigning some ship on the Pacific coast for gunnery work similar to that conducted against the Son Marcos. His proposition has been favorably reeeived at the navy department. Those who objected to the destruction of tho San Marcos now realize the im portnnce of practice nnd experiments of this kind. Tho problem is to find a sultnblo vessel on the west coast for this purpose. Officers afloat are so en thusiastic over the matter that some have even advocated that Ave shots be Bred against one of the armored cruis ers to ascertain the damage, they be lieving mat the ship could be placed In shoal water for this purpose nnd that the cost of repairs would be fully worth tho Information obtained. AEROPLANE IN MUSEUM. One In Which Orville Wright Quali fied at First Army Tests. The Wright aeroplane in which Or ville Wright finally qualified at Fort Myer and demonstrated conclusively the possibility of actual flight In heav ier than air machines in 1008 and 1009 has been received at tho National mu seum, Washington, where it is to bo retired as an exhibit along with the telegraph instruments of Morse nnd tho original telephone apparatus of Professor Bell. The government paid $30,000 for this machine. It was used at San Antonio during the maneuvers there last spring. It Is not. tho 'original aeroplane that was first brought to Fort Myer for the- government In 1008. That was a considerably larger machine and was tho first in the world to make a flight of more than nn hour. On Sept. 17, 1008, while Orvlllo Wright was flying with Lieutonant Selfridgo as a passenger, one pf tho propellers struck a wire at tie rear of the machine and wrecked all of the controlling gear. The machine foil, killing Lieutenant Selfrldge and se verely Injuring Orville Wright. The aeroplane was completely wrecked, but the englno was little hurt, and the same engine Is In the machine now In the museum. , It was this machine that successful ly passed all tho government tests and made the historic flight to Alexan dria, Va and return with Lieutenant Foulois as a passenger. OUTDOOR SLEEP FOR A "FRAT" The Missouri "Slg Alphs" Will Have No Bedrooms, Cold fresh nlr as a healthful sleep producer will be given a tryout this winter by fifteen members of tho Sig ma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in their new chapter house at the University of Missouri. In the new home which the chapter Is building Itself at Colum bia at a cost of $18,000 there are no bedrooms. InBtead, on the third floor there has been built one large sleeping room with plenty of windows and doors where all the members will re tiro at night. No heat will be allowed in tho room oven in the coldest weath er, and the doors and windows are to be left open. The smaller rooms on the second floor, seven in nil, are to be fitted up without beds for study roqms, and two students will be assigned to each. The rest of the house will be finished as a clubhouse. The new fraternity home will be ready for occupancy by Oct 15. SAYS TEA WILL GO UP TOO. Assistant Secretary Curtis on Exclu sion of Colored Produot. "Going up" was the declaration of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Curtis when asked what effect on the price of tea to the housewives the new ruling excluding colored tea would have, Tea Is going to keep pace with tho other uccessnries of life in the price climbing contest. There Is plenty of tea, but food experts have declared that colored tea Is not to bo sold in the American markets. There are 2,000,000 pounds of colored tea at San Francisco which Secretary Curtis will not permit to come in. MEASURING HUMAN ENERGY Scientists Studying Experiments by Harvard Professors, SEEK SECRET OF THE SOUL Also Hope to Discover Cures For Dis eases Now Regarded as Always Fa tal Normal, Healthy Persons Used as Subjects. A number of young men nnd worn en, stenographers, bookkeepers and laborers, through willingness to lend their persons for experiment by tho Carnegie scientists, havo made possl bio some Interesting investigations by Professor Francis Gnno Benedict, Dr. ,Thone M. Carpenter nnd others at the Carnegie laboratory, Boston. Tho in vcstlgations havo partly solved many long hidden secrets of tho humnn body. They virtually aim at the greatest of all secrets that of tho union of man's soul and body and In' cidentally tho discovery of tho means whereby certain diseases now declar cd Incurable may no longer be neceS' sarily fatal. The Influence of tho mind upon the body is also being studied by means of instruments so sensitive as to re cord a chango In the subject's Interest from ono matter to another. This lino of observation Is expected to demon strato to a scientific niaety the value of mental healing. For their subjects tho Carnegie sci entists have found It necessary to go outside the laboratory to doctors and hospitals for sick people and to bus! ness houses, schools nnd elsewhere for normal, healthy people. Mrs. Florence Goodwin of WInthrop, Mass., is one who has helped the Car negie Investigators in one of the most Interesting experiments. Mrs. Goodwin spent several hours sealed in a boxllko calorimeter, having refrained from eating anything for about twenty hours before entering tho machine. There was just room enough inside for her to sit comfortably with out moving. Across tho arms of tho chair was a shelf with a book and typewriter nnd several sheets of pa per. Running from tho calorimeter and connecting with various instru ments were numerous wires and pipes. iVfter arriving at tho laboratory Mrs, Goodwin was weighed, and a sort of stethoscope arrangement wns put on. She then entered the calorimeter, and It was closed and scaled so that no air could penetrate insldo except that which was measured and sent In through pipes. Tho method of finding the energy used by men or women under observa Hon is by measuring the heat consump tion of the body first when it is at rest and then in action. In Mrs. Goodwin's case, for instance, tho energy she used in typewriting for two hours In terms of heat would havo boiled about twen ty gallons of ico water. Dr. Falta of Vienna mndo an unos tentatious trip to America for the ex press purpose of observing the work being dono at the Carnegie laboratory, Universities In Berlin, Copenhagen nnd elsewhere havo also sent representa tives to see what Is being dono by Pro fessor Benedict and his assistants. Among other things, tnbles are being prepared at tho laboratory showing Just how much energy is cnuscd by eating steak, eggs, fruit, and so on. SMOKELESS POWDER DANGER Navy Department Precautions Against Spontaneous Combustion. Based upon tho first reports of the terrible naval disaster in Toulon har bor, the experts of the-navy department at Washington were disposed .to be lieve that tho explosion on tho Llberto resulted from tho spontaneous Ignition of some of tho smokeless powder, which had deteriorated from having been kept too long without inspection. It is to guard against Just such acci dents that United States naval regu lations requlro a careful examination of tho powder In tho magazines of warships at comparatively short in tervals of time. This examination In volves a chemical test calculated to demonstrate absolutely tho safety of tho powder. Tho result of the appli cation of this rulo has been extremely beneficial not only in preventing spon taneous combustion In tho first placo, but in suggesting to tho powder mak ers changes In tho process of manufac ture which tend toward safety. Tho best American practice also pro vides for tho refrigeration of the maga zine by tho adoption of a cold storago system. It is not known whether or not tho French navy has adopted this additional precaution. LEPER AT LARGE 12 YEARS. Only After Dyregrov Is Dead Is His Dread Malady Known. After having suffered from leprosy for twelve years, during which time be walked tho streets, worked nnd had unllmTted opportunities to trans mit tho disease. Ludwlor n. rvrwnv. a tailor, died at Minneapolis, and tho uuiuru ox ms maiaay waa discovered only after Coroner Gilbert Seashoro had Viewed tho bodv nnrl hnil tha nlrt of Dr. n. B. Robertson of the Univer sity or Mlnuesotn. Tho health department immediately began tnlilne stenn tn danger of infection. UNITED STATES LAND LOTTERY IS OPEN. 466,552 Acres In South Dakota to lo at Homesteads. Uncle Sam's big land lottery Is on in South Dakota, and 400,502 acres of land In the Rosebud and Pine Rldgo reservations nro nffernd ns nrliea tn land seekers. Gregory, Dnllas. Cham berlain and Rapid City are the regis tration points. On Oct 24 the drawing will commence at Gregory. Tho price of every 1C0 aero tract has already been fixed by government ap praisers and the homesteader will pay the prico so fixed regardless of wheth er he files first or last. And so wheth er the homesteader .files upon some of the best land or some of tho poorest he will be certain that ho will bo re quired to pay only what tho land Is worth and will not run tho risk of making an error In Judgment on tho misrepresentation of n "locator" nnd paying a high price for poor land. The prices fixed by the appraisers aro from 25 cents an aero for tho roughest grazing land to ?0 nn acre for the finest level agricultural land. Of the total of about COO.OOO acres subject to homestead entry about one-third has been classified as agricultural land at from $2 to $0 an acre. Briefly the method of securing a homestead under this opening will be ns follows: Tho applicant will personally appear at a registration point nnd will swear beforo a notary public on duty nt the notarial headquarters to his qualifica tions to take a homestead. If the ap plication is made at any registration point other than Gregory the applicant must mail his affidavit to Judge Wit ten nt Gregory. When Judge Wltten receives ono of these envelopes he will examine it carefully, and If there are no distin guishing marks upon it to indlcnte from whom It came. It will be dnnnstt. ed with others in a large metal can. The registration will end Oct. 21. On Oct. 24 nil of tho metal be opened and their contents dumped on n large public platform in Gregory. Some child will be selected to go upon the platform and nick ud nn nnvelone. It will be opened by Judge Wltten. ana tne application therein contained will bo numbered "Ono." Tho nprsnn who filed it will have the privilege of making tho first selection from all the lands subject to entry and may choose ror his homestead tho finest Iovpi farming land at $G4 an aero or the roughest grazing land at 25 cents au acre. Tho second envekroe selnr.teil frnm those on the platform will be number ed "Two," etc. After the drawing those who receive numbers will nn vp ample time In which to Inspect tho inniis anu select tne tracts upon which they wish to file. REARRANGE ARMY STRENGTH. War Department Corrects Defects Re vealed by Texas Maneuvers. Ono .of tho most important lessons learned during the recent army maneu vers in Texns was tho necessity of keeping all troop, battery and com pany organization at all times nt full war strength. To correct existing de fects In that respect tho war depart ment has Issued an order rearrnnclnc the strength of the army. Tho feature of tho order Is the addi tion of seventy men to each cavalry and seventy-two to each lnfnntrv reel. ment serving outside of the United States or in Hawaii. There are some slight ehances in tho strenctli nf thn field and coast artillery, and provision is made for permanent assignment for headquarters duty. Tho additional men aro found by reducing by 1,000 tho 8,000 now engaged in recruiting. Tho order fixes tho strength of the nrmy at 77.523 men. but this includes largo detachments of scouts, prison guards, signal corps men and others engaged In nonllne duty, so that the normnl strength of the nctunl- fltht. ing force is reduced to 00,008, which includes all tho troops serving outside of tho United States. LONDON TO TOKYO IN 14 DAYS Trip Possible at End of Year Will Re qulro Only Ten Hours on Sea. Toward the end of this vonr. nttor tho railroad from Antung, on tho Ko- rean-aiancnunan frontier, has been transformed Into a standard mui line, through slecnlnc: cars -will h run direct from Chanchung to Fnsan in connection with the weekly trnnssl berian express of tho Intemntlnnni Sleeping Car Company of Europe, cn- nming passengers from London to Ja pan to reach their destination with a ten hour sea crossing only namely, ono hour on the EncrUsh phnnnpl nnrt nine hours between Fusan'and Shlmo nosekl. From the latter nolnt through ing car trains will bo run to Kobe, Yokohama and Tokyo. Tho trip from London to Fusan will reoulro thlrtpnn and a half days only, and the complete journey from London to Yokohama or Tokyo will toko fourteen and a half days. A New Census For Japan. It appears that tho Japanese nrr co. Ing to tnko their next census niwird- Ing to European methods. For this purpose a Jnpancso professor from the University of Tokyo is now in Rome with a view of studying tho taking of tho Italian census. He has already been in Berlin nnd Vienna with a slm. liar object. Tho Japanese census is to bo taken on more exact lines thnn has over been attempted on previous occasions Everybody's Boss. Who Is It bosses all the statt? Who makes us swear nnd makes us laughT Who's too Intelligent by half? The ofneo boy. Who comes to work with shoes unsh'ned And when reminded doesn't mlnd7 Who when he's wanted none can find? The ofllco boy. Who when on errands he must go Delays his start, walks very slow And sees the moving picture show? The ofllce boy. Who oft Is told that he'll be fired? Who, asked to work, is very tired? Who's by stenographers admired? Tho ofllco boy. Who is It that's not fond of soap? Who's seldom known to sulk or mope? Who knows tho latest baseball dope? The ofllce boy. Who whistles till wo have a fit? Who has surprising Btralns of grit? Who's who or, otherwise, who's It? The ofllce boy. Canadian Courier. DR. E. F. SCANLON, Only Permanent Resident Specialist In Scranton. TEN YEARS' SUCCESS IN THIS CITY. CURING VARICOCELE Varicocele Impairs the vitality and destroy s the elements of manhood. I dally demonstrate that Varicocele can be posi tively cured without the organs being mutilated; they are preserved and strengthened; pain ceases almost instantly; swelling soon subsides; healthy circulation 1 s rapidly re-established, Dr. E. F. Scanlon, nnd every part ot the Varicocele Special organism affected by tho 1st. disease Is thoroughly re stored. A written guarantee with every case I accept. Write If you cannot call. Consultation and examination free. Crodlt can be arranged. OlHce Hours; 9 a. m. to G p. m., and 7 to 0 i. m.; Sundays, 12 to 1 p. m. Offices 433 Linden St., SCRANTON, PA. (ODDOslte I'ostofllce.) For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF MILWAUKEE, WIS.: Agency at Honesdale, Wayno Co., Pa. FROM THEi 53d ANNUAL REPORT. Total admitted assets J 273,813,063.65 Total Insurance In force 1,080,239,708.00 Total numbur policy-holders 425,481.00 New Insurance Reported and paid for In 1910 , 118,789,033.00 Increase In Insurance In force over 1909 67,?I0,613.00 Total Income for 1910 E11S79,892.26 Total payment to policy-holders 32,809,899.00 Ratio of expense and taxes to Income 12.78 per cent. YOU WILL, MAKE NO MISTAKE IF YOU INSURE WITH II. A. TINOLEY, Agent, HONESDALE, J'A. To the Farmers of Wayne Co.- We Desire to Have You Patronize the 7" per Cent. of the stockholders of 9 this Bank are Farmers Open An Account in the Progressive Bank Capital Stock $75,000.00 Surplus and Profits $17,000.00 Comparative Growth of Deposits: June 1st 1907, May 1st 1008, May 1st 1909, May 2nd 1910, May 1st 1911, Officers: H. E. 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